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The strengths of the Dalton films are his acting, he's clearly the best actor of the Bond leads, and strong stories.
Weaknesses are the generically-staged camera setups, and the lack of sex and violence.
Dalton's punches are definitely the best thing about it.
Dalton occasionally impressed with a solid punch or kick, but he did have a very thin and light figure. I think he could have done with a few more opportunities for hand-to-hand combat. Battling the Smiert Spionam assassin in the jeep in TLD was good, as was his physicality with Sanchez on the tanker. He also had some fine moments in the Barrelhead brawl. But the way they staged things with Dalton didn't give him a whole lot of opportunity to show off. The Necros fight on the cargo net for instance was an impressive sequence, but it was more staged around clinging on for dear life than in mutual brutalization.
This is the problem with the Dalton Bond films not enough physicality. Thank God the magic carpet hit the cutting room floor.
I've never known 2 Bond films with hardly any punches in it from Bond,apart from the Daltons.
But yeah, there weren't any memorable fisticuffs with Dalton.
I love the way he headbutts Dario in the lab,that is such a tense scene in LTK.
Exactly. Sean, Laz and Craig (and Fleming's Bond) could all fight dirty. You could see them sneaking up on their opponent from behind. Not sure I really "got" that vibe from any of the others.
Brosnan does sneak up on the guard on the stealth boat in TND,and just plunges a knife right into his heart from behind,thats a good moment.
He then uses the body to impersonate himself and once its been shot up,throws it into the sea.
Thats pretty Bondian to me.
But Dalton or Moore,no not at all.
Still, he's not really someone I could see participating in an all out brawl like Sean, Craig and Laz.
The bar fight in LTK is kind of naff and you can tell Dalton is uncomfortable with the "touche" line. I do like his punches though.
I could. Dalton:Bond had more of an "anything goes" attitude rather than fighting like a gentleman. His best fight (and the best fight of his era), is the Bond vs Necros fight. Both in the context of the film, and the filming of the fight. Unfortunately, Dalton got very little chance to have a full on brawl.
I could be wrong but doesnt he whack a trucker/drinker with a chair in the bar room fight ? ..i cant recall,precisely.
To Dalton's credit he used his surroundings decently well in the TLD prison fight. And in relation to sheer fisticuff talent, he did pretty well when he was swarmed underwater in LTK.
When the guy with the Swordfish runs at Bond, Bond grabs a chair, but he doesn't get to use it. He does get to use a chair as a weapon in TLD, when he is fighting the jailer.
Aaah it was the jailor....i knew he did somewhere...oh to be old and the braincells worn away by women,drink,and football.
(Me not Dalton ;) )
Except for the football, that's not a bad way to go.
Oliver Reed approves.
Aaah the Bond that never was....if Reedy approves im a happy bunny,Major !
Regarding the fight itself, I don't think Dalton comes off too badly - other than perhaps the moment when the fish smashes through the chair.
It's...very cheesy ;)
I wouldn't go that far, but bar room brawls should remain where they being, old school Westerns.
I think Craig is very good in the fight scenes but in most of them he seems too tough. He bleeds but nothing really seems to affect him (I'd say the Hinx fight and a couple of the CR ones are the exceptions). That's why I think Lazenby was the best in the fight scenes. Just as human as Dalton and just as badass and intense as Craig. The full package. Connery did that too, he was really physical but still sold the danger, but I think how larger than life and effortlessly cool he was meant that he didn't seem quite as human as Dalton and Lazenby. Moore had a couple of decent ones but lets be real you don't watch a Roger Moore Bond for the fight scenes. He was a lover not a fighter. Brosnan was okay but I think the direction/coreography let him down, the fight scenes in GE were great, the rest not so much.
I agree that the Barry music helps a bit.